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Investigar Entre Adolescentes y Ciborgs

Irene do Planalto Chemin, Geovana Luna dos Santos, Kauan Alves da Silveira Aristides, Raylane Souza de Moura, Samara Lopes de Oliveira, Veronica Martins Da Silva November 26, 2025
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“¿Qué imaginan cuando escuchan la palabra “cyborg”?” Fue la pregunta que lanzó el adolescente Kauan para introducir una presentación sobre El manifiesto cyborg de Donna Haraway (2009) al grupo de investigación del Programa de Iniciación Científica de Nivel Secundario de la Unicamp. Una presentación en línea, con diapositivas, realizada por el investigador científico Kauan para cuatro compañeros y una orientadora. De inmediato, a algunas de nosotras nos viene a la mente la imagen de un robot. Otras están abiertas a nuevas referencias. Podemos viajar a través de películas, distopías, máquinas de alta tecnología e incluso la moda puede ser una referencia cyborg para los adolescentes. Por lo que parece, los ciborgs y la adolescencia conviven históricamente y tienen una relación de amor y odio. Conectados a diario, con corporalidades que habitan fronteras poco demarcadas entre lo online y lo offline. El humor y la ironía pueden simular tanto la imagen de la adolescencia como la del ciborg. No tenemos problemas con los sentimientos contradictorios, estamos interiorizando la contradicción que supone ser ciborgs en el siglo XXI. Somos, nosotras que escribimos este texto, cinco adolescentes y una joven adulta que todavía tiene la capacidad de imaginar “qué quiere ser cuando sea mayor”. (read more...)

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Fazer Pesquisa Entre Adolescências e Ciborgues

Irene do Planalto Chemin, Geovana Luna dos Santos, Kauan Alves da Silveira Aristides, Raylane Souza de Moura, Samara Lopes de Oliveira, Veronica Martins Da Silva November 26, 2025
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“O que vocês imaginam quando escutam a palavra “ciborgue”?” Foi a pergunta lançada pelo adolescente Kauan para introduzir uma apresentação sobre O Manifesto Ciborgue de Donna Haraway (2009) para o grupo de pesquisa do Programa de Iniciação Científica Nível Ensino Médio da Unicamp. Uma apresentação online, com slides, realizada pelo pesquisador de iniciação científica, Kauan, para quatro colegas e uma orientadora. De imediato, a imaginação de robô vem à mente de algumas de nós. Outras estão abertas para novas referências. Podemos viajar por filmes, distopias, máquinas high-tech e até a moda pode ser uma referência ciborgue para adolescentes. Pelo que parece, a ciborgue e a adolescência convivem historicamente e têm uma relação de amor e ódio. Cotidianamente conectadas, com corporalidades habitando fronteiras pouco demarcadas entre o online e o offline. O humor e a ironia podem simular tanto a imagem da adolescência quanto da ciborgue. Não temos problemas com sentimentos conflitantes, estamos internalizando a contradição que é sermos ciborgues no século XXI. Nós, que escrevemos este texto, somos cinco adolescentes e uma jovem adulta que ainda tem a capacidade de imaginar “o que quer ser quando crescer”. (read more...)

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Doing Research Between Adolescence and Cyborgs

Irene do Planalto Chemin, Geovana Luna dos Santos, Kauan Alves da Silveira Aristides, Raylane Souza de Moura, Samara Lopes de Oliveira, Veronica Martins Da Silva November 26, 2025
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“What do you imagine when you hear the word “cyborg”?” This was the question posed by a teenager named Kauan to introduce a presentation on Donna Haraway’s The Cyborg Manifesto (2009) for the research group of the High School Scientific Initiation Program at Unicamp. An online presentation, with slides, given by an undergraduate researcher, Kauan, to four classmates and a counselor. Immediately, the imagination of a robot comes to mind for some of us. Others are open to new references. We can travel through films, dystopias, machines, high-tech and even fashion can be a cyborg reference for teenagers. Apparently, cyborgs and adolescence have historically coexisted and have a love-hate relationship. Daily connected, their bodies inhabiting poorly demarcated boundaries between online and the offline. Humor and irony can simulate both the image of adolescence and the cyborg. We don’t have a problem with conflicting feelings, and we’re internalizing the contradiction of being cyborgs in the 21st century.  We, who wrote this text, are five teenagers and one young adult, who still has the capacity to imagine “what they want to be when they grow up.” (read more...)

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Renouncing and Returning to Shareholder Value

Sakari Mesimäki November 18, 2025
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As pandemic restrictions began to ease in late 2021, the annual Finnish startup conference Slush made its return as an in-person event. Held for the first time in 2008, Slush grew through the 2010s to become a major international startup event with tens of thousands of attendees—a symbol of the “success story” of Finnish startup culture and a focus of national pride and economic hope. (read more...)

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《安放亡者之所：骨灰房作为中国城市墓地替代空间的兴起》

xinyi wu November 13, 2025
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在中国，越来越多的人购买公寓并非为了居住，而是为了安放已故家人的骨灰。这类住宅被称为“骨灰房”。有人认为，与这样的邻居共处“晦气又可怕”；也有人调侃道：“说实话，我宁愿和死人做邻居，也不想和吵闹的人做邻居。” 这令我思考，骨灰房是如何在当代中国成为墓地的替代选择的？这不仅关乎城市的空间，更关乎土地、死亡、传统、经济与政策在当代中国城市语境中的交织（UN-Habitat 2020）。 (read more...)

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Space for the Departed: Bone Ash Apartments as an Alternative to Cemeteries in Urban China

xinyi wu November 13, 2025
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Many people in China have started buying residential apartments, not to live in, but to store the ashes of deceased family members. These are called bone ash apartments. Some people think it’s creepy and unlucky to be neighbors with them. Others say, “Honestly, I’d rather have dead neighbors than noisy ones.” So, I started asking, how did bone ash apartments become a real alternative to cemeteries in China? This isn’t just about space—it’s about how land, death, tradition, economy, and policy collide in today’s urban China (UN-Habitat 2020). (read more...)

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Space Selfie: Rethinking Scalarity Between Orbit and Home

Denis Sivkov November 6, 2025
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We are in Ruzaevka, a small town near Saransk, the regional capital of Mordovia, Russia. Ham radio operator Dmitry Pashkov, photographer Sergei Karpov, and I climb the roof of the local technical college. Sergei and I are on the roof because we are interested in so-called bottom-up space exploration. Dmitry works at this college as an IT specialist. It is a cloudy day in March, and there is a cold wind on the roof, still icy from the winter. Dmitry promises to show us how to get an image of the European part of Russia using an American weather satellite. (read more...)

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Космическое селфи: переосмысляя масштабирование между домом и орбитой

Denis Sivkov November 6, 2025
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Мы в Рузаевке – маленьком городе рядом с Саранском – столицей Мордовии, Россия. Радиолюбитель Дмитрий Пашков, фотограф Сергей Карпов и я карабкаемся на крышу местного технического колледжа. Сергей и я на крыше потому, что мы интересуемся так называемым низовым освоением космоса. Дмитрий работает в этом колледже системным администратором. Пасмурный мартовский день, на обледенелой крыше дует холодный ветер. Дмитрий обещал нам показать, как можно поймать изображение европейской части России с американского метеоспутника. (read more...)

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